Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-04-26
New Lines Of Development {.

The HERALD yesterday referred
with some little tone of warning to
the good people of our lovely valley
not to forget the productive develop
ment of their Incompatible soil and
cline in their anxiety to be the found
ers of new towns. Taking up the
same line of reflection, it is quite
worthy of profound consideration that
South California is by no means con-
fined to any ''pent up Utica" of
industrial resources. The glamour
surrounding the business of orange
growing and grape culture, and the
unusual profits resulting from these
enterprises, are all too much calcu-
lated to turn mems minds from less
poetic, but quite as important agri-
cultural pursuits. A symmetrical
development of the country in all its
multiplied and varied resources is
the most healthful, permanent and
profitable OF all methods. While the
scramb BILE Is so active to secure lot in
some OF the new town sites, place
for villa home or an orange grove
along the warm foothill country,
some of our wisest financiers and
colonists are happily turning their
attention to class Of farming more
prosaic in it's nature, but which, in
the end, cannot fail to prove the found.
ing OF great fortunes. Old settlers will
readily recall the times when, follow
ing at the heels of one or two dry sea-
sons, there grew up so lively demand
for the clamp lands" in which this
section so abounds. ;. These lands are
good for crop of grain or corn any
season, in spite Of little or no rainfall.
For some time past many have been
more or less disposed to consider the
policy Of those years gone by mis-
take. But now comes a reversion Of
view, and it would seem as If those
settlers along the cienegas and river
bottoms had "builded better than
they knew. 1t has become settled
fact that alfalfa, once established on
such lands, is permanent and Pc
rennial pasture of the most profita BILE
kind. The fame OF Los Angeles has
gone abroad over the whole land as a
region superior to the Bluegrass"
section of Kentucky for its breed of
horses. The flyers from the stables
of Rose and Baldwin and Titus have
carried the victorious colors of Los
Angeles over the courses of all the
best contested fields in America. At
the same time the fat meadows OF old
England cannot surpass these damp
lands for the milch or beef cattle
they nourish. Legion are their name
hereabouts who are becoming i'm
pressed with these vital facts, and
the next few years will see great
things done in these important
branches of industry. The past half
dozen years have done much in this
direction. The tough, but treacherous
little mustang" and the light half
breed horses have been given place
to breeds of all classes surpassed no.
where. 1t is not only the racing
stock that has been SO much improv-
ed, but the heavy draft horse, the no
less useful general-utility animal and
the stylish roadster, are all well rep
resented. So in cattle, the long-horn-
ed, clean-limbed Spanish breed, poor
and lean in the flank for the
butcher, has given place to the best
stock for both uses. The Jersey, the
Durham, both of milk and meat
the Holstein and the Ayrshire
are all common here. To these al
falfa farms on the damp lands, and
to this matter of breeding thorough
bred stock, there will be much more
care devoted in the future. 1t is
line OF enterprise that will well repay
all the money and care devoted to it.
The fact that little or no housing OF
;attle is necessary, and that there is |
10 suffering from severe climatic |
changes will make it all the easier
md more profitable to carry ON this
industry. There is a great progress
head OF us in this line.